Pauses the current playback and sets paused to true. This can be used to test whether the media is playing or paused. You can also use the pause or play events to tell whether the media is playing or not.

Gets the earliest possible position, in seconds, that the playback can begin. The initTime property was initially listed in the W3C spec, but has been dropped. No new version of Internet Explorer supports it.

Standards information

Remarks

Note If you are developing locally or on an intranet and have rendering issues for HTML5, you can add a "meta http-equiv-'X-UA-Compatible' content= " meta command, followed by "IE=edge" to the <head> block of a webpage to force Internet Explorer to use the latest standards. For more information about document compatibility, see Defining Document Compatibility.

Beginning with Windows Internet Explorer 9, any audio or video content needs the correct mime type set on the server, or the files won't play. Internet Explorer 9 supports MP3 audio, and MP4 audio and video. WebM audio and video files can be supported by installing the WebM components from The WebM project. Updates to Internet Explorer for Windows Developer Preview introduced HLS support. The following table shows the required settings for your web server to host these files correctly.

Media file to serve

Extension setting

Mime type setting

Audio mp3

mp3

audio/mpeg

Audio mp4

m4a

audio/mp4

Audio WebM

webm

audio/webm

Video mp4

mp4

video/mp4

Video webm

webm

video/webm

Video HLS

.m3u8

application/x-mpegURL or
vnd.apple.mpegURL

When you use an HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) format file, the src URL is a Playlist file rather than an individual video file. The extension m3u8 denotes a .m3u file encoded with UTF-8. Internet Explorer 11 internally handles downloading and playing the video and audio segments. For more info on HLS file formats, see the HTTP Live Streaming specification.

The following extensions are available to the Video object when used in a Windows Store app using JavaScript.